Anelise H. Shrout

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Anelise H. Shrout

Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies

Digital and Computational Studies, History, American Studies

Cliometrics, critical race theory, Data, death, Digital and Computational Studies, Digital Humanities, Disasters, Famine, Gender and Technology, gender studies, history, immigration, Ireland, Philanthropy

Dale E. Chapman

Professor of Music

Music, Africana, American Studies

dchapman@bates.edu | 207-755-5905

20th century American music, African American music, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, historical musicology, jazz studies, popular music studies

Melinda A. Plastas

Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies Chair

mplastas@bates.edu | 207-786-8313

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, art and resistance, black feminism, Black feminisms, commodities studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, gender studies, health justice, history of commodities, peace studies, Social Movements, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

Charles I. Nero

Benjamin E. Mays '20 Distinguished Prof of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies, Africana Chair

cnero@bates.edu | 207-786-6415

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

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March 26, 2026

Everyone is a star in ‘Everybody’

Bates Theater’s production of 'Everybody' sold out every performance at Gannett Theater last week — waitlists at the door, eager audience members finding out they’d gotten seats five minutes before curtain — and the room earned that anticipatory urgency.

March 26, 2026

Yun Garrison wins Lee Young Leadership Award from YWCA

Yun Garrison, associate professor of psychology, was honored on March 8 with the Lee Young Leadership Award from the YWCA of Central Maine in recognition for her community-engaged work.

March 26, 2026

‘Equally at home everywhere’: Brett Karpf ’26 wins Watson Fel…

Brett Karpf walks to make sense of the world and because he has to, for reasons he’s still trying to understand. Beginning in August, fully funded by a fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, Karpf will spend a full year walking — and thinking about walking.